Seven Small Love Songs

Seven Small Love Songs is an eight-minute work composed for the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, and premiered there in July 2004. Of the seven miniature movements, six are set to the text of anonymous classifieds from the "Personals" sections of The Reader.

Instrumentation is:
soprano
2 clarinets in B-flat
horn in F
2 percussion (vibes, marimba)
string quartet

Seven Small Love Songs was premiered in July 2004 by Daisy Press, soprano, Stan Rothrock, conductor, and an ensemble from the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at Mass MoCA. It was also performed in December 2004 by Julieanne Klein and Ensemble Prima (Montreal), Melanie Leonard, conductor.